Pascal Wagner

Helping $3M+ Net Worth Investors Build Passive Income | Built $300K/Year Portfolio with 30+ Investments | Ex-VC @Techstars, Deployed $150M in 3 Years

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@SimpleCRE @ThinkAppraiser lol this sounds insane

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

A client forwarded me their report they received from TD Ameritrade and I'm asking myself - who knows what the heck this info graphic means...

You're taking a "standard deviation of risk"...

What does that even mean?

Its crazy that in 2026, the largest wealth managers still treat investing like a black box.

No wonder most firms underperform the market.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

Im in the middle of planning a sailing trip in Greece.

I’m still shocked there is no travel AI booking agent that has dominated the market.

I can’t believe even with AI how much time it still took me to decide on where to stay.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@robbiehendricks I’m with you. Very great articulation of incentive structure alignment. I’ll quote you when I share this with my clients. Although I think 70/30 is also still a very reasonable split.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

I just got the new @X debit card (thanks for the hookup @myleswagner )

6% APY is pretty incredible

I'd love to use it more but most of my $$$ sits in business accounts or investments so I'm waiting for business accounts to launch with baited breath.

Anyone else try this out yet?

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@BMNRBullz @blocknewsdotcom Definitely is the time to be buying!

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

I love reading @KobeissiLetter - but I have to say it’s disappointing to see the making of a case using cumulative numbers like this.

Anyone can use cumulative metrics to make a chart look like it’s growing up into the right.

What matters is the rate of growth year over a year.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Cumulative crypto card payment volumes have reached a record $7.8 billion, with monthly volumes now up +230% since May 2025.

Crypto card adoption has rapidly accelerated in 2026 due to growing access to stablecoins as a payment rail through crypto cards.

In other words, more people can now spend stablecoins like fiat by using crypto cards, further driving adoption.

The growth comes amid the launch of Jupiter Global, which has seen a +648% surge in spending volume over the last 2 months.

Visa is capturing ~90% of onchain card transactions via crypto-native infrastructure partnerships like Jupiter Global.

Crypto cards are the ultimate use case for stablecoins.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Cumulative crypto card payment volumes have reached a record $7.8 billion, with monthly volumes now up +230% since May 2025.

Crypto card adoption has rapidly accelerated in 2026 due to growing access to stablecoins as a payment rail through crypto cards.

In other words, more people can now spend stablecoins like fiat by using crypto cards, further driving adoption.

The growth comes amid the launch of Jupiter Global, which has seen a +648% surge in spending volume over the last 2 months.

Visa is capturing ~90% of onchain card transactions via crypto-native infrastructure partnerships like Jupiter Global.

Crypto cards are the ultimate use case for stablecoins.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

ope you're getting some much-needed family time and rest this long weekend.

Weekends like this in Miami with my (soon-to-be) wife got me thinking.

I've been mulling over something I hear on almost every intro call with new investors like you who joined my email list.

It's usually around minute 20, after we've talked about their problems, what they're trying to achieve, and what's holding them back.

The investor pauses and says some version of:

→ "I just don't know how to really vet a deal."

That's not a knowledge problem.
It's a clarity problem.

Because here's what's actually going on.

As an investor, you're trying to do five things at once — and most people skip straight to the hard one.

1) First, you need to understand what's out there. Not what one GP emailed you — what's actually live across the market right now.

2) Then you need to figure out what fits your situation. Your check size. Your timeline. Whether you're optimizing for cash flow, growth, or a tax offset. That's not the same answer for everyone, and it's not something a deck can tell you.

3) Only after that does it make sense to evaluate a specific deal — is this one actually good, compared to what else you could do with the same capital?

4) Then comes the part nobody talks about on the webinar: feeling confident enough to wire. That's a different problem than understanding the deal.

5) And finally — are you actually getting closer to the goal you started with? Most people never loop back to check.

Most investors jump to step three because someone sent them a deck.

They never nailed step two — so even a good deal can feel wrong six months later.

This weekend is a good time to sit with that for five minutes:

→ What job are you actually trying to hire your next $100K–$500K to do?

If you can't answer in one sentence, that's useful information.

It means the next deck you open isn't the bottleneck — your filter is.

That's why I built my Dealflow platform the way I did.

Not to tell you which deal to pick — to walk you through those steps in order.

1) See what's live.
2) Filter to what fits you.
3) Compare side by side before you ever get on a call with a sponsor.

If you've got cash sitting and you've been meaning to get serious about it, worth 10 minutes.

See what's live →
https://t.co/ocoq6ILgzQ

Happy Memorial Day!

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

I’m pretty sure there’s data to back this up.

[@jason @Jason]

America's goal should be to expand our Empire

Be it immigration, acquisition or invitation, if you believe we have the best system then you should embrace expansion.

If Cuba, Puerto Rico, Greenland, Greece, Venezuela, Quebec or The Dominican Republic want to join the Union let’s do it!

Let’s get to 60 States in these United!

Let’s be the most populous and prosperous country in the world.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

If @SpaceX really IPOs above $1,000 a share...

my $100k turns into $1M+.

But not every deal turns out like this. Most don't.

The real lesson I've learned: you have to figure out the type of deals you actually like — the ones you're comfortable holding for long periods of time.

That took me forever.

I used to work at @Techstars , specifically in charge of finding and evaluating companies for their $150M follow-on fund.

That's where I saw it up close — how many of those companies never IPO, or just go to zero (hint: most of them).

Since then I've dabbled in all kinds of early-stage deals since and what I've landed on is this: Pre-IPO or new public company investing is my sweet spot.

@Tesla was my first real win — $100k in, $1.5M out. A 15x over 10 years. That's the one that made me a believer.

Then in 2021, I bought SpaceX secondary shares at around a ~$350B valuation. Looks like that one's going to be a big winner too.

I've definitely missed my share. I still can't believe I let myself get talked out of buying into @X after @elonmusk took over @twitter .

With all that said, private investing is the clearest road to real wealth I've found.

But you don't get to be right every time. Not all of them are winners.
You just need the winners to be big enough to make up for the losses.

The catch is liquidity. Your money's locked up for years.

If you can stomach that, private investing is where it's at.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

Appreciate you fighting the good fight for use.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Ilhan Omar is a prime example of why our constitutional amendment is necessary.

She allegedly committed marriage and immigration fraud to get her brother into this country, is tied to millions in a Somali fraud case in her own state, and has made comments publicly about how she is “Somalia first.”

She has spewed hate towards law enforcement officers keeping innocent Americans safe, did not know how many World Wars have been fought, and has stood on American soil and said the United States is turning into one of the worst countries in the world.

She's not a natural born American citizen. And she's made clear she's not America first. She has no business being in a position of power within our government.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

Yes. We need to bring law and order back to our country.

[0 @Zer0_XIII]

This is how all crimes should be handled. Any necessary force should be legal, all the way up to deadly force.

If a criminal gets hurt or killed as a result after committing or attempting to commit a crime, anything that happens to them as a result is completely their fault.

Innocent citizens should have more rights and protections to be able to use force against criminals, without fear of being arrested, imprisoned, or sued by the criminals.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@robbiehendricks Congrats on the growth. It definitely is slow in the beginning but all great things take time. Love me the graph too.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@fletchrichman Like so much in software unfortunately

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@ChiefTstyOfficr @Jason @Flomerboy @WisprFlow I was asking myself the same thing.

@Jason are you tell us us you the elgato step to talk instead of using a keyboard?

I have it, I guess I’ll try it and report back.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@claudeai it's time you start getting it together... I've already started migrating to Codex because of how often this service goes down.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@justmazer lol I laughed when I saw this. I’m in the same boat (wedding in October).

I’ve been trying on this $10 silicon ring from Amazon. Not really interested in anything else.

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

@TricklerHQ @40yardhammer @paulg 1000%

[Pascal Wagner @PascalWagner1]

This is sick... I used the prompt and it generated my screenshot. It analyzed my code based and built it within a few minutes. VERY Helpful. @DaveJ you are now a legend in my book. Thank you for sharing!

[Dave Jeffery @DaveJ]

Ask Claude to document and describe the main flows in your app and output in a single page html + json data file.

Incredibly useful for humans and the JSON file is very useful for explaining the flow to the LLM when working on new features/bugfixes.